Publisher Description
Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
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“You can never really go wrong reading about baseball especially in March. Good read. Interesting strategy. I found myself thinking about the 1993 Phillies who were sort of misfits but walked alot, scored runs and mixed and matched their way to a pennant. It’s not the Phillies Way now.”
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Ken (4 out of 5 stars)
